The AI industry has evolved a set of standard benchmarks against which AI models are tested. That allows developers to see how effective their systems are and also allows developers and users to compare systems against each other.
Author: admin (Kendrick Williams)
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THE NEW HOT COLLATERAL FOR LOANS: NVIDIA CHIPS
AI companies scrambling for cash to build new models and open data centers are offering their most valuable commodity as collateral for their loans—the Nvidia chips that make AI work.
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AMAZON EXPECTS TO UNVEIL ITS NEWEST AI CHIP NEXT MONTH
Concerned about its dependence on other suppliers for the processors that make AI work—and looking to earn back some of the billions it has showered on AI development—Amazon has emulated Microsoft, OpenAI, and other tech majors in making its own.
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AI’S SURGING POWER DEMANDS SHOULD NUDGE OIL MAJORS TOWARD RENEWABLES, ARAB OIL CHIEFTAIN SAYS
Earlier this month, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) hosted a summit that brought together CEOs of oil majors BP, Shell, and TotalEnergies with officials of Microsoft and other leading tech companies, the board chair of private equity firm Brookfield Asset Management, and executives of German utility RWE and EDF, which provides power in the U.K.
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NEW AI CAN SMOOTH OUT BUMPY AIRLINE FLIGHTS
Air turbulence that slops your coffee onto your fold-down tray could disappear with FALCON, a new AI that can instantly adjust an airplane’s behavior as it encounters the sudden differences in air pressure that cause bumpy flights.
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OPENAI URGES “NORTH AMERICAN COMPACT” TO COMPETE WITH CHINA
OpenAI has called for the creation of a “North American Compact on AI” under which the U.S. and Canadian governments and their AI companies would work together to outcompete China on AI development and deployment.
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U.S. CRYPTO THAW JUST HEATED UP
With Gary Gensler potentially bowing out as SEC commissioner by Thanksgiving, and initiatives on tap to follow through on President-Elect Trump’s promise to have the U.S. lead the world in crypto technology, the entire sector is in a celebratory mood.
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AFRICAN MEALWORM EATS STYROFOAM
Those blocks of hard foam packing around your flat-screen TV look like dinner to an African mealworm.
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JET FUEL DISTILLED FROM WASTEWATER CUTS EMISSIONS 70 PERCENT
Researchers at the Argonne National Laboratory have created a process to salvage organic matter from wastewater and use it as a feedstock to make “sustainable”—non-polluting—jet fuel.
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SLEEPING BRAIN CELLS COULD WAKE UP AND COMBAT A RANGE OF ILLNESSES
Our brains have hordes of neural stem cells that can grow into new brain cells. They’re dormant until a signal jolts them awake and they begin to make young and healthy new cells.